You Can Now Color In Scenes From Beyoncé’s Lemonade

Illustrator Jessie Kanelos Weiner was fast asleep in Paris when Beyoncé’s Lemonade premiered on HBO last month. (It was 3:00 a.m. over there, after all.) But as soon as the 30-year-old expat woke up the next morning, she downloaded the visual album on her laptop. “I signed up for Tidal like everyone else did,” she told Vogue.com by phone.

After a few binge-watching sessions, Weiner realized that Beyoncé’s album was the perfect source of inspiration for her next project. “I’m always on the lookout for different subjects that would be engaging on social media and also work well as coloring books,” she said. Two days after Lemonade premiered, the artist had already started drafting up a few sketches. “I loved how it was organized by chapters, so I thought of it very much as a horizontal narrative,” she said. “I kind of just explored the themes that I thought were powerful.”

The result is #colormelemonade: five intricate line-drawings from Lemonade, including Beyoncé alongside her “Formation” backup dancers and triumphantly strolling the streets dressed in that lemon-yellow Cavalli dress with her hot sauce bat in tow. Weiner, who already released a coloring book earlier this year, Edible Paradise: An Adult Coloring Book of Seasonal Fruits and Vegetables, hasn’t ruled out turning her Lemonade tribute into a full-fledged book. “It’s just a personal project as of now,” she said. “But we’ll see. I just wanted it to get out into the world.” Now that adult coloring parties are officially a thing, we can’t actually think of a better way to spend a Friday night than listening to “Hold Up” and “Sorry” while painting in between the lines.

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